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  • Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver, Loren Dean, Ángela Molina
  • Directors: Ridley Scott
  • Writers: Roselyne Bosch
  • Producers: Alain Goldman, Garth Thomas, Iain Smith, Marc Boyman, Mimi Polk Gitlin
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.20:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Pathe Distribution
  • DVD Release Date: 23 April 2001
  • Run Time: 149 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005A0ZH
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14,998 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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One of Ridley Scott's most wrong-headed films, this one (like all of his movies) looks fabulous and sounds utterly ridiculous, almost from the beginning. His first mistake was casting the wonderful Gerard Dépardieu as Columbus and forcing him to speak English, which Dépardieu does with decided difficulty. After spending far too much time on the ocean with Columbus' three ships (you wish they would sail over the edge of the world), they arrive in the West Indies, only to turn around and sail back. The rest of the film deals with the not particularly comprehensible politics of Columbus' venture, which leads to the violent slaughter of trusting natives by a band of cardboard villains. Dépardieu, who radiates sympathy, looks as if he's at sea with this material. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com


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Ridley Scott´s film focuses on Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a superb Ridley Scott movie!, 16 Sep 2001
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1492, is stunning with it's images and it's soundtrack. It's honestly a really big triumph in the cinema. Ridley Scott directed 1492, and the movie is highly intelligent with it's direction. Great performances, though the accents are annoying. Besides the accents, everything is perfect in 1492, including Gerard Depardieu's amazing portrayal of Columbus. Be prepared for quite a historical masterpiece. Which 1492 truly is.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful but vacuous, 8 Oct 2006
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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The perils of working towards an anniversary and trying to beat a rival project to the screen are all too evident in 1492 - Conquest of Paradise. It's easily Ridley Scott's most beautiful looking film, designed and shot with real love and care. With almost every shot gorgeous enough to take down and frame, it's like walking through an art gallery at times. Unfortunately that's never enough to compensate for a terrible screenplay by Roselyne Bosch that seems to have been written on the bus to work and stumbles from cliché to cliché. Carry On Columbus has better dialog at times, not to mention a better grasp of history. Worst of all, it throws away the real dramatic potential in Columbus' life for an unconvincing slice of class warfare - wouldn't you know it, it was really all those pesky upper class Euro trash aristo types like Michael Wincott that screwed up paradise, not Columbus' own incompetence and incredible cruelty - while painting him as the `chosen one.' At one point when the Inquisition ask our compassionate visionary if he is comparing himself to Christ, there's even a dramatic pause as he thinks it over in that he-is-you-know tipping the nod to the audience way. The result is a film that wants to be up there with Herzog's Spanish nutter in the jungle movies but is too expensive to allow its protagonist to go all Klaus Kinski on it and run the risk of alienating the audience, leaving us with more excuses and special pleading than drama.

Strangely, no-one in front of or behind the camera seems to notice just how bad the script is ("Excuse me, but you're the only queen I know," Columbus tells Isabella, soliciting the even more unlikely reply "You're the only navigator I know, so that makes us even."), and both performances and technical standards are all worthy of a much better film. The film has quite a few great cinematic moments, usually visually led and supported by Vangelis' excellent score, but it's too obvious that Scott wanted to film these scenes and tried to fit enough of a movie around them in the belief that he could carry the audience over the shoals without pulling it off. You can see the rationale behind moments like the hurricane that wipes away his new city and renders him paralysed, but without the real emotional journey into madness the film needs it's just setpiece filmmaking. Still, sometimes looking good is good enough - but not good enough for 154 minutes. It's a shame that they didn't read Kirkpatrick Sale's excellent historical biography instead of just using the title.

The transfer of Pathe's 2.35:1 widescreen version of the uncut European version isn't always as good as it could be. The only extra is a trailer from the time when the film was still going to be called 'Columbus.'
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A real dark horse ! :-), 6 Oct 2003
By Mr. L. Stacy (UK) - See all my reviews
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This was one film I inherited from my brother when he gave me his video collection. For months it sat gathering dust until I finally got bored and decided to watch it. How gutted I was I didn't view it earlier!

1492 is one of those very rare films where you can really feel the sheer heart and passion that the lead actor has poured into his role. Gerard Depideau is frankly superb and you instantly feel that he really is Columbus and he really did cross that massive ocean.

What's really interesting about this movie though is how it concentrates on not only the events leading up to the discovery but also the aftermath which is so often overlooked. Most people could tell you that Columbus was the guy who discovered America, but not much else about him. This film tells you about the hassles beforehand and his unfortunate struggle thereafter.

A truely moving and educational film. This is worthy of anyones collection.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Meticulous work by Ridley Scott
Depardieu was unfairly blasted for his portrayal of Columbus, as he was more than adequate for the job. Read more
Published 8 months ago by A. J. Stavsky

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding
When compared to the fiasco that was Kingdom Of Heaven. 1492 serves as a reminder of what a trully great film director Ridley Scott is. Read more
Published 11 months ago by G. R. Donaldson

5.0 out of 5 stars A visually stunning masterpiece.
A visually stunning drama,and performance, accounting the story of Columbus and, his conquest, to find the new world. Read more
Published 13 months ago by P. M. Dome

4.0 out of 5 stars A dramatisation of a key moment in history
The vision and courage of Christopher Columbus helped to shape the world in which we live today. This film attempts to capture the political background, the great 10-week voyage... Read more
Published 20 months ago by LXIX

3.0 out of 5 stars conquest of paradise
too long, slow, dragged out, visually attractive the only thing that kept me awake.
Published on 16 Jun 2005

2.0 out of 5 stars Great story, badly told
It was foolhardy to cast Gerard Depardieu as Colombus as the origin of Colombus is reputed to either be Italian or Catalan (Spanish), but certainly not French. Read more
Published on 26 Jul 2004 by Nydia Felix

4.0 out of 5 stars "paradise and hell"
A curiosity piece with a politically correct slant, "1492" is an epic drama well worth viewing. It is held together by the fabulous cinematography (on location in Spain and Costa... Read more
Published on 19 May 2004 by Alejandra Vernon

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good film, worthy of a purchase & your viewing time!
I thought that Gerard Depardieu (Green Card) was great in this movie. He easily deserved an actor award for his performance. Read more
Published on 7 Jul 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars A visual & audio masterpiece!
Upon viewing 1492 you probably will notice how great this movie looks. It most certainly does look great. Everything about it works quite well. Read more
Published on 25 May 2002

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and sadly forgotten film
1492 is an unusual film. Something never quite hit the spot which would of made it a sucessfull film in the cinema. Infact, i think it flopped in the box office. Read more
Published on 23 Mar 2002

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